It was the 350-millimeter lens he was pointing every which way at Nationals Park.

The Texas Republican told HOH he’s been a shutterbug for decades, noting that he took lots of candid shots for his high school yearbook and had a dark room at home while growing up. The passion only intensified once he became a parent, a move that prompted him to invest in his first professional grade camera, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Farenthold has since graduated to a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, which was the eye-catching apparatus he kept training all around the diamond during the June 13 matchup.

“Really, I took it just to have something to do with my hands,” Farenthold said, though it sounds like the high-tech gadget made quite an impression on fellow lawmakers — particularly Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa.